com.martiansoftware.jsap
Class CommandLineTokenizer

java.lang.Object
  com.martiansoftware.jsap.CommandLineTokenizer

public class CommandLineTokenizer

extends Object

A utility class to parse a command line contained in a single String into an array of argument tokens, much as the JVM (or more accurately, your operating system) does before calling your programs' public static void main(String[] args) methods.

This class has been developed to parse the command line in the same way that MS Windows 2000 does. Arguments containing spaces should be enclosed in quotes. Quotes that should be in the argument string should be escaped with a preceding backslash ('\') character. Backslash characters that should be in the argument string should also be escaped with a preceding backslash character.

Whenever JSAP.parse(String) is called, the specified String is tokenized by this class, then forwarded to JSAP.parse(String[]) for further processing.

Author:

Marty Lamb

See Also:

JSAP.parse(String), JSAP.parse(String[])

Method Summary

static String[]

tokenize(String commandLine) Parses the specified command line into an array of individual arguments.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

tokenize

public static String[] tokenize(String commandLine)

Parses the specified command line into an array of individual arguments. Arguments containing spaces should be enclosed in quotes. Quotes that should be in the argument string should be escaped with a preceding backslash ('\') character. Backslash characters that should be in the argument string should also be escaped with a preceding backslash character.

Parameters:

commandLine - the command line to parse

Returns:

an argument array representing the specified command line.